Isaac Julien

Known for DirectingBorn 1960-02-21 (age 66)East End, London, England, UK

Filmmaker and installation artist, Isaac Julien was born in 1960 in London, where he currently lives and works. His multi-screen film installations and photographs incorporate different artistic disciplines to create a poetic and unique visual language. His 1989 documentary-drama exploring author Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance titled Looking for Langston garnered Julien a cult following while his 1991 debut feature Young Soul Rebels won the Semaine de la Critique prize at the Cannes Film Festival.Read more

Movies & web series

Black and White in Colour

Paradise Omeros

Three

Dreaming Rivers

Territories

Lina Bo Bardi — A Marvelous Entanglement

Lessons of the Hour

Scala!!!

True North

Ten Thousand Waves

Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask

Baltimore

Long Road to Mazatlán

BaadAsssss Cinema

Lost Boundaries

Vagabondia

Daddy and the Muscle Academy

30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing

Derek

Young Soul Rebels

Western Union: Small Boats

Looking for Langston

Once Again... (Statues Never Die)

The Attendant

This Is Not an AIDS Advertisement

Queer as Art

Significant (Br)other

The Darker Side of Black

Playtime

Once Again... (Statues Never Die)

Encore No.1 Paradise Omeros

Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art

Fantôme Creole

Portrait in Blue: Essex Hemphill

Fantôme Afrique

Encore II (Radioactive)

Black Nations/Queer Nations?

Reframing AIDS

The Passion of Remembrance

Gay Black Group

Who Killed Colin Roach?